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O Yachts Class 6

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Safety at speed.

Dan Lévy launched O Yachts with the Class 4, a design by Lerouge, and he has followed this success up with the Class 6 , a design that is turning heads and making waves in the catamaran industry. The O in O-Yachts stands for Owner – these are catamarans that are developed with their owners in a partnership with the yard.

Dan’s first aim from his Latvian base, northeast of Riga, is to produce yachts that protect their owners from anything that the weather can throw at them, and that can eat up the nautical miles offshore safely, at speed. The Class 6 is setting high standards. This is a world cruiser that is competing strongly with the likes of the Garcia Explocat 52 and the HH range.

Like the O-Yachts Class 4 , this bigger boat is a catamaran for sailors and their families who want to travel big distances over an extended period of time in safety and comfort. It’s a very spacious yacht that is capable of fast cruising in a controlled fashion, whatever the state of the sea.

Keeping the Weight Off With a length of 19.50m (64 foot), the O-Yachts Class 6 weighs only 15 tonnes light. Go for the full carbon option and this number comes down to 13.5.

Dan Levy, along with Laurent Bourgnon (sadly no longer with us, double winner of the Route du Rhum, as well as the Transat Jacques-Vabre  with his brother Yvan), dreamt up this catamaran whose signature feature is a spine or longitudinal central beam that provides the boat with rigidity, stability and buoyancy in steep waves. The mast and forestay are fixed to this structure and the design allows for a large 44 square metre living space unhindered by cross beams.

Keel or Boards? In light winds, the Class 6 will sail at wind speeds and over. Make your own wind for more sailing and less motoring! The large, curved dagger-boards (an option, you can also specify keels) give a draft of 3.8 meters or 12½ feet when down, helping the Class 6 to pinch upwind, particularly in calmer conditions.

A Luxury Sporty Cat

The first priority of this boat is safety at sea, but make no mistake – this is a comfortable catamaran that goes places fast (and gets you out of trouble quickly). Performance means safety and 300 nm a day in good conditions is the target on this boat.

There is more than 44 m² (473 sq ft) of living space in the nacelle. Who needs a flybridge increasing your windage and forcing your sail and centre of effort higher?

High Tech Construction

Talk to Dan Levy, and this is clearly an area that he is passionate about. One of the keys aspects of producing a safe boat is strength, so the Class 6 has been “over engineered” in this respect. There is a spectrum of materials you can choose from, depending on your wish list and budget. These range from Vinylester resin/carbon-glass-kevlar/Gelcoat on the Performance pack to Epoxy resin/100% carbon + kevlar/paint on the Race pack.

Weight control is a big factor in the design of these yachts, so  carbon fiber is used for all the outer and inner skins. Foam is inserted into this sandwich, and the whole packagage is vacuum infused with epoxy and reinforced with Kevlar in high stress and potential impact areas.

This all-carbon construction gives a light displacement of 15 tons, with an ability to carry loads up to a total weight of 18 tons. The spine means that there is no forward crossbeam, and it gives an impressive rigidity to the narrow hulls. The axe bows are also designed to efficiently pierce through waves and space is maximised through the use of chines.

With the curved daggerboards option and lifting rudders mounted in a well, the draft can be reduced to 0.9 m (3 feet).

Sailing – Safety First

Examples include a rotating mast and carbon boom with hydraulic furling system. The staysail, genoa and gennaker, can also furl hydraulically. The sail plan emphasises the priority of this yacht which is safety. You will be matching wind speed with the main and XL Genoa (104m2) in light air (3 to 10kts). With a Code 0 or Gennaker flying off the bowsprit, you will be sailing faster than TWS.

The steering systems can be configured as wheel steering or tiller steering with seats.

Mainsail, Genoa, Solent and Storm Sail The O Yachts Class 6 typically comes with a mainsail and genoa which can be unfurled with a press of a button. You will have a variety of lighter wind sails to fly off the bowsprit (Code 0, 280 m² gennaker, also on hydraulics). With these flying you will be faster than wind speed on a reach in calmer conditions. With the sheets coming back to hydraulic winches at the helm, it doesn’t take long to furl the genoa and deploy the self-tacking staysail if the wind picks up. And this being a safety first boat, there is an option for a storm sail as well.

Centred Mast Another benefit of the spine is that it has enabled the designers to set the mast further back than you would normally see on a comparable catamaran. This is a trick more recently used by Gunboat on their 68 to achieve a balanced sail-plan, and it means that the main sail area is only 109m2 (or 1173.27 sq) ft in favour of more sail area up front: which is easier to manage of course. The centralised mast position also helps to give a stable, smooth ride.

Living Space

This is an  area where the Class 6 excels. The saloon/cockpit area is 44 m² or 475 square feet, a huge living space with an enormous galley. This is a French designed boat after all.

The sliding window at the back of the saloon opens right up to give you an Open+ design. Down below, the berths are wide with island beds in the aft cabins thanks to those chines. Forward, the berths are arranged athwartships and higher up, in order to accommodate the performance of the bows. Foam sandwich is used in the furniture to keep the weight down.

That said, the choice is yours on this boat: pick one of the following options:

– Fixed keel (Simple, more buoyancy) – Daggerboards – Asymetric daggerboards – Curved Asymetric daggerboards

The whole idea of the Class 6 is to keep the engines off, but how does she perform coming into the marina?

She Motors Well, the Class 6 comes with twin 80 HP Yanmar engines. You will begin to appreciate the shape of those hulls, as with these running at 2,500 rpm, you will be pushed along at ten knots in a steady sea, using around 11 litres per hour (2.9 US gal/h).

Use half the fuel and only one engine and you will cruise comfortably at 7 knots.

The O Yachts Class 6 competes in a hot market segment:  luxury fast catamarans. But what sets the Class 6 apart, is its emphasis on safety and comfort.

Yes, this boat is fast, but that’s almost a by product of this innovative design. The living space feels like a New York apartment. The boat has been kept light, is rigid and has a punchy sail plan (without being overpowered).

If you are looking for a yacht to take you long distances, the Class 6 ought to be on your shopping list. Dan claims that the Class 6 is the best catamaran a couple can manage without skipper. It is hard not to agree with him.

There is even a power version, with a Smart Hybrid power unit (one diesel engine, one electric).

For more information on the Class 6, head to O-Yachts .

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O is for Owner

The O Yachts brand made a name for itself in 2014 under the impetus of Frenchman Dan Lévy with his Class 4, a model that has since seduced several owners (See test in MW no. 138). The goal of the Latvian shipyard, based northeast of Riga, is to produce “owner’s” multihulls - as its O suggests. The model I’m discovering today is the second one; the first one, released more than a year ago, started its career as a powercat (with a big internal combustion engine in one hull and an electric motor in the other) before being fitted with a rig. The objective of the Class 6 is to appeal to yachtsmen who want to go far and for a long time, with their family (possibly short-handed), with a multihull of which they would have chosen not only for the standard finish, but also most of the technical elements of navigation and comfort. The platform is very spacious but nevertheless capable of the highest average speeds, in complete safety, whatever the sea state. That’s an ambitious program, maybe even contradictory, you might ask?

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Dan Levy: 'There is a real sadness to hyper-privileged people'

By Stuart McGurk

“Megan,” Dan Levy says to his publicist as he logs on, “why are you sharing your crippling anxiety?”

Levy has beamed in on Zoom from his LA home, looking, as he often does, turbo-bespectacled and statement-jumpered. In a few hours, he tells me, with the excitement of a man blasting off to Mars, he’s about to get a plane – an actual plane! – to Paris. He’s only going for a couple of days – it’s a work trip – “But at this point I’ll seek any opportunity”.

In fairness, Megan’s anxiety is only everyone’s anxiety: the thrill and dread of things starting up again, the uncertainty of whatever the new normal might be and just how normal it is. But the peak-pandemic old normal is partly the reason we’re here – and a sitcom that, in many ways, mirrored what we were all going through.

Schitt’s Creek first aired on 13 January 2015 on CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) but initially received little fanfare outside its native Canada (in the US it aired on Pop TV, a channel formerly known as the TV Guide Network, where it received even less fanfare).

It was only when it arrived on Netflix, after its third series in 2017, that people really started to pay attention, and only last year, after its sixth and final series had arrived, that it became that most curious thing: TV’s most belated breakout hit. Having scored no Emmy nominations during its first four series, it picked up four nods for its penultimate series and 15 – winning nine, including all the major comedy awards, the first sitcom to do so – for its final one. The show would be really going somewhere... if it hadn’t just left.

Timing, though, is everything in comedy and Schitt’s Creek could actually hardly have been better. The tale of a wealthy family who had suddenly lost all their money, it saw the parents (played by Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, Dan’s father) and their two mollycoddled adult children (played by Annie Murphy and Levy himself) move to a backwater town they once bought as a joke and forced to all live together in a decrepit motel. Or, put another way: a family who suddenly had their world turned upside down, adult children once again living under one roof, everyone having to worry about money in a way they hadn’t before. Is it any wonder it became the pandemic’s favourite sitcom?

Levy, like many of his friends and many of us, was no different. When things started to get difficult in California, where he now lives, he moved back in with his parents in his hometown of Toronto, along with his sister, her two dogs and his dog. “And it was actually kind of amazing. Like, whenever would you have the time to reset like that?”

Yet was it not, I wonder, a bit of a busman’s holiday? Along with its late-run success, Schitt’s Creek was notable for being very much a family affair: Levy cocreated the show with his father and it also co-starred his sister, Sarah Levy, who played the town’s waitress.

“It brought us professionally much closer,” he allows. “But when we were doing the show, so much of the conversation was consumed by it.” He and his father would find themselves problem-solving the series even in their regular father-son time. His mother, Levy says, “was just really thrilled we were finally talking about other things”. Still, he looks back at the show now and says, “We could have had no idea how much it would parallel so many people’s lives.”

As far back as high school, Dan Levy was always fascinated by privilege. His father, a comedy legend and star of such Christopher Guest classics as Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman , along with the odd American Pie movie, if that’s your thing, purposefully chose to move back to Canada in order to raise his children, lest they became the kind of offspring from whom everything sounds like a question, despite the fact nothing is.

Yet despite his parents’ insistence on not spoiling him and his sister, they were both sent to private school. Levy lasted two years before demanding to be sent back.

“I really didn’t like it,” he says now. “These kids were so overindulged that nothing resonated with them. They had actually become immune to experience. And money, in an attempt to adhere some sort of cohesion to the family dynamic, ended up stripping everyone of passion.” There is, he thinks, “a real sadness to hyper-privileged people”.

He remembers, particularly, a school trip to Venice. He’d spent weeks, months, convincing his parents to let him go and then just as long working, saving up for the share they insisted he pay. He’d even booked himself on a course once he got there. Venice – imagine! He’d never been outside North America. Yet when they arrived, all the other kids just moaned.

“And I’m in Venice ! And I’m learning about philosophy... in Venice . It was the most profoundly life-changing experience. And there were these kids there complaining about the smell and that they were bored. I remember thinking, ‘How do you get to this point?’” It was an experience, he says, “that went on to influence my whole life. A combination of reality TV and having grown up observing these people.” This would, after all, end up being the magic of Schitt’s Creek . The family may have begun the show like the overprivileged kids on the trip to Venice – not least the two siblings – but they ended the show like the young Levy: thankful just to be there in the first place, if still a little concerned about the smell.

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Yet Levy would spend more than a decade as an MTV host in Canada, notably helming The Hills: The After Show (another chance to dissect the numbly affluent), and found his ego so sated that it was tough to leave. Yet one day he did just that. Was there a single moment that made him quit?

“Well, in my gut it never felt right. It always felt like a struggle for me. And in the end it was a struggle in a way that didn’t feel productive any more.” Still, he says, “I walked away from it and I didn’t have any other prospects at the time.”

It wasn’t long, though, until the idea for Schitt’s Creek arrived – one that had really been percolating all that time.

“I knew I had the emotional nugget of the show,” he says. “I knew I wanted it to be about a wealthy family that didn’t know each other, that were very far away from each other in their lives and that had to be brought back together because they lost their money, and what would that look like?”

Levy started writing lines, moments, but didn’t have a clue about how one wrote an actual TV show. Happily, he was related to a man who did.

The neat narrative about this is that the rest was plain sailing: within six months they were out pitching the idea and, as Levy puts it, “Everything just kind of steamrollered”.

Surely they had arguments...

“Oh, yeah. In the early days it came down to tone. What I was writing initially was more performative.”

In what way?

“Just that in terms of the comedy, the jokes weren’t necessarily on the page. It was how a character was going to perform the line that would make it funny.”

Of course, the problem would be selling it: “How do you convince someone that what’s on the page is eventually going to be funny? So, you know, there needs to be a certain amount of jokes on the page for it to read as funny.” They put in, he says, “a few more jokes” to make both his father, and the TV stations, more comfortable. “So his desires and my desires needed to coexist in order to get to the place where we landed.”

Levy says he didn’t have a social life for the six years they were making Schitt’s Creek . As lead actor, writer and all-round showrunner, he would be picked up at 5am, drive to set, rehearse and rewrite scenes, make decisions about wardrobe and sets, approve budgets, film, sometimes act, sometimes direct, all before spending a couple of hours running the writers’ room, before getting home to quickly eat, after which he would often be writing until 2am. Some weeks, he says, “I didn’t sleep more than eight hours.”

And as the sitcom grew and grew, it didn’t get easier, he says, but harder. “Because the more we built the show, the more proud of it I was. And the more I wanted to create more compelling and dimensional stories, the more we wanted to expand our world...”

By series six, he says, the stress got so bad that he had to wear a neck brace, “because the anxiety in my neck was so bad I couldn’t move it. At one point there was an acupuncturist and a chiropractor coming to set every day at lunch to work on my neck so that I could actually perform and not, you know, look like I needed a neck brace.”

Levy takes most pride in the storyline of his own character, David (who is pansexual), who not only learns to love the town but someone in it too: his business partner-turned-boyfriend, Patrick, played by Noah Reid. The lead-up to it is as slow and contradictory and confusing as falling in love actually is: not measured in a single spark followed by endless sitcom contrivances, but a steady drip of fretting, worrying, wondering – was the feeling real? Was it mutual? – before a high-five-the-walls, joyful realisation that it was, plus the understanding, both tender and terrifying, that it was just the start. After Levy’s David kisses him, Patrick says, “Thank you... I’ve never done that before… with a guy… I was getting a little scared that I was going to let you leave here without us having done that. So, thank you, for making that happen, for us.”

It was a moment straight out of Levy’s own life – his first boyfriend was the one who made the first move – and one he’d never seen on screen before. In the Netflix documentary about the show’s finale, there’s an incredibly moving scene in which a letter from a Facebook group called Serendipitydodah For Moms, a group of mothers with LGBTQ kids, is read out aloud by Noah Reid. Levy is tearing up before the first sentence is spoken and is fully crying by the time Reid says, “More than 1,800 of us are signing this letter because we wanted to say thank you for the LGBTQ characters, relationships and storylines that you’ve included in Schitt’s Creek . Your commitment to represent love and tolerance in your show is so important to families like ours... You have created new ways for queer viewers to see themselves.”

“Wishing I had something like it as a kid,” Levy says to me now, “hoping it would be some kind of comfort for me growing up, it’s an incredibly emotional experience to know that I’ve done something that has helped, you know, lighten the load, or helped change the conversation within a family, or made someone feel empowered, because growing up that’s all I feel like I hoped for.”

Levy remembers, particularly, a storyline that he himself worried about at the time, but one, as time goes on, that might sum up the show more than any other – beyond the serendipitous scenario of a family thrown together in trying circumstances (though it was very much that); beyond the fact it started with cynicism and disregard but ended with acceptance and love (though it was also very much that); beyond, even, the show’s mantra, one Levy set from the get-go, which said the town itself should never be the joke, something that seemed more important than ever in our politically polarising times (and it was very much that too).

The storyline in question saw David encourage Patrick, while they were seeing each other, to go out on a date with a guy who came into their store. It was a polarising idea in the writers’ room. They knew their audience was mostly family based and knew it might alienate them. They knew that people wouldn’t necessarily understand that sometimes opening a relationship, giving someone freedom, could make that relationship stronger. It would be complicated, they more than knew, in a half-hour of sitcom TV, to show there was a malleability to relationships, a flexibility to love and to intimacy. Could all that “live within our little show that was a comedy, but also a little dramatic”? Levy, naturally, decided it could, because “We always wanted it to be real, to never cut corners when it came to depicting this couple as realistically as possible”.

The show was still so small at the time that Levy remembers begging the network to spring for the cost of DVD screeners in order for the series to even be in contention for awards. But he also remembers they were so small that no one paid attention when the script for that episode went through. Another benefit of becoming a cultural phenomena after the fact: all the tough calls had already been made.

In the six years that Levy was making Schitt’s Creek he kept a journal – random thoughts, mostly, half ideas. But some more fully formed – an idea, for instance, that he wrote down a few years ago for a Hollywood romcom that told a gay love story... but which might as well have said “The Titanic ... but on Mars” for how realistic it seemed at the time.

Currently, he says, he’s writing it and intends to direct.

“I’ve always wanted to make [a romcom],” he says. “I’ve always wanted to be in one. And as a gay person, you don’t ever get that kind of opportunity. You get to play the zany friend or Pepe the coworker. So I’m really excited and honoured to have that opportunity: to put a gay person front and centre in a romcom.” It looks, he says, that finally, “Those doors are opening more and more”.

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Dan Levy and Catherine O'Hara Have a 'Schitt's Creek' Reunion at Paris Fashion Week

After their beloved sitcom Schitt's Creek ended in 2020, Dan Levy and Catherine O'Hara channeled a little bit of David and Moira Rose at Paris Fashion Week

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The Roses are a long way from Schitt's Creek .

Dan Levy and onscreen mom Catherine O'Hara appeared to manifest a scene right out of their beloved Canadian sitcom when they were seated together front row at Loewe's F/W 2023 runway show during Paris Fashion Week.

The actor, 39, shared a selfie with O'Hara, 69, on Instagram Saturday, captioning it with an emoji holding back tears.

The joyful reunion earned some praise in the comments section from the likes of Marc Jacobs , who dropped a selection of red heart emojis. "Really no words for how much I love this picture," wrote Carnie Wilson as Sara Haines added, "This makes my heart so very happy!!!"

The Happiest Season star also shared an Interview Magazine excerpt, in which O'Hara was asked if she saw any of her crushes in the front row. "Daniel Levy," she quipped.

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Co-created by Dan and father Eugene Levy , the duo starred as David and Johnny Rose in Schitt's Creek , which centers around a wealthy family who loses everything and has no choice but to move to the small titular town, which Johnny purchased years before as a joke.

O'Hara, who came up with the older Levy in Canada's Second City improv troupe, starred as the matriarch Moira Rose, while Annie Murphy played daughter Alexis Rose.

Running for six seasons from 2015 to 2020, the show garnered lots of love and awards, taking home the Emmy Award for outstanding comedy series and the Golden Globe for best television series — musical or comedy.

After Schitt's Creek aired its final episode in 2020, Dan told PEOPLE last year that a reunion is "TBD, but a TBD with an exclamation mark on the end ."

"My hope is that one day we can all get together. I see these people all the time. We're in constant contact with each other," he said. "So the love is there. The desire to work together is there, and the desire to tell more stories is there."

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Levy continued, "I think it just comes down to making sure that it's the right story to tell. And I think we're also proud of the work we did on Schitt's . And when you end on such a high, it really forces you to think very carefully about what the next step is. Because whatever that is, is an extension of something that most people don't have, don't get to see in their life. And I really respect the audience in that thing."

Dan Levy Gets Candid About Re-Learning How To Act After Schitt’s Creek: ‘It's Physically Programmed In Me To Do The Wrong Thing’

There's so much David Rose still in him.

There’s no real downside to creating an iconic television character . For one thing, you have job security. Which then comes with a lifetime of residual pay. Sure, you can get typecast as a certain brand of character. But because everything in Hollywood is circular, it just means you’ll end up playing that character again in the eventual reboot/reimagining that makes its way to a streaming service. Right, Full House cast ? 

Dan Levy has a different take on this conversation, however. For six wonderful seasons, Levy played the flamboyant and opinionated David Rose on Schitt’s Creek , opposite his father Eugene Levy, the brilliant Catherine O’Hara, and the exquisite Annie Murphy. If you miss the cast, we have suggestions on how best to keep up with their careers . For Levy, that means using your Netflix subscription to watch his directorial debut Good Grief , in which he also stars. But as he told the ReelBlend podcast during an exclusive interview, his Good Grief character couldn’t be more opposite of David Rose, and that meant Levy – the actor – had some habits he needed to break. As he explained:

I had to physically train myself out of the habits that I had formed playing David Rose on Schitt's Creek. Mark, in this movie, is so still and so reserved and so avoidant. Coming from 80 episodes of a television show where no reaction was too small , it was almost like I had to physically be aware of how little I had to do, and how still I had to be in order to be this person. And how hard that was at times to rid yourself of the habits that are formed of playing a character that is so elastic, and so larger than life.

I write at length about how the advent of streaming and the introduction of prestige cable has blurred (and basically removed) the line between television and movie stars. Now we get Jodie Foster in a new season of True Detective , or Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown . It can free up an actor to attach themselves to a limited series, allowing them to continue pursuing upcoming movies , but also giving them the chance to chase great material in different formats. Still, as Dan Levy continued to elaborate on his time as David Rose, he wouldn’t change a thing, and he appreciated the evolutions it allowed him to explore. He went on to tell the ReelBlend hosts: 

It's a rare thing to be able to play a character for as long as I did and still be excited by them, and continue to add to them. And by the end, I mean, the character of David Rose when we found him in the pilot episode is so different than where we find him at the end. He's way more comfortable in his skin. But as a result, the performance got bigger and more reactive. And so, yeah, it's in me. It's physically programmed in me to do the wrong thing as an actor. You know what I mean? It's one of those rare occurrences where it's like, ‘Can we try that? But really go bigger now!’ I'm acting opposite Ruth Negga and Hamesh Patel. I can't be doing what I've done around wonderfully subtle, gorgeous film actors. It's a very different craft.

The top directors, actors, and writers continuously stop by CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast for in-depth conversations about their craft, so make sure you have subscribed on whatever service you use to download and listen to podcasts. In the meantime, Good Grief is available on Netflix. 

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Dan Levy on Relaunching His Eyewear Line (and Yes, There’s a Schitt’s Creek Tie-in)

By Christian Allaire

When I connect with Dan Levy on a Zoom call, he is still processing all of his Emmys nominations that were announced last week. For this year’s awards, the Canadian star of Schitt’s Creek nabbed a whopping 15 nominations for the comedic series which he cocreated with his father, Eugene Levy. “I’m thrilled; not in my wildest dreams did I think so many members of our team would be recognized,” Levy says. For him, ending Schitt’s Creek has been bittersweet. “Saying goodbye to this group of people and deciding to end the show was one of the hardest things that I’ve ever done. Not because I wanted to, but because I felt the story was ready,” he says. He admits the final days of shooting were especially tough. “Our last day on set, I cried for like six straight hours,” he says. “I got a really bad headache and had to go to sleep.”

Schitt’s Creek ’s Emmys takeover is not the only thing he is excited about right now, however. This month, Levy is relaunching D.L. Eyewear , the sun and optical eyewear line that he originally launched in 2013. Levy says he put the passion project on hold when filming for Schitt’s Creek began—you know, he was only busy making one of the funniest shows on TV—but would still use some of the frames from his line for costuming purposes. “D.L. Eyewear was all over Schitt’s Creek, ” says Levy, whose frames are worn by his father and costar Catherine O’Hara on the show. Despite having not updated the website or put out a new collection in years, he noticed sales from his eyewear line were beginning to rise throughout the filming of the series. “I was selling, like, a pair or two a day for the last two years,” Levy says. “These were frames that, yes, I love, but we hadn’t put out a new collection since 2014.” It became clear that he needed to bring the line back.

As soon as the show ended shooting, Levy put his focus on developing a new collection of optical and sun styles. He came up with a core offering of 23 different shapes and sizes. “We played with some really interesting colorways,” Levy says. “For me, it’s all about taking a timeless idea and adding a contemporary spin to it, whether it’s magnifying a tortoise shell, or choosing an unexpected acetate and pairing it with a fun lens color.” The styles are all gender nonbinary as well. “There are some incredible frames that are not being tried on because they are delineated by gender, which feels totally absurd to me,” he says. “A lot of the frames that I have have been vintage, or were [at] one point geared towards women.”

Fans of Schitt’s Creek will be pleased to know that the line also has a tie-in to the show. Levy drew design inspiration from working with its costume designer, Debra Hanson. “I really got to understand the value of every piece of clothing and accessory that we put on every day—every single piece that we wear says something. It doesn’t have to say something loudly, but it says something,” says Levy of collaborating with Hanson. He also took style cues from some of the show’s many vibrant personalities as well; one cat-eye style is named the Rose after O’Hara’s character, Moira Rose.

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Levy’s own personal style—and that of the avant-garde David, whom he played on the show—is a major influence too. “Glasses were always something that I wanted to do,” he says. “I love the idea of design, and the optical world was the only place where I felt like I had any experience or voice to contribute to the landscape, because I’ve been wearing glasses since I was eight years old.” He estimates there are now approximately 75 opticals and sunglasses in his ever-expanding personal collection. “This is obviously a collection that I’ve been building and growing for the better part of the past 15 to 20 years,” he says. “It’s annoying to pack, because everywhere I go I bring, like, 10 pairs.”

While Levy was familiar with designing eyewear, he says the relaunch process has continued to teach him new things. For one, he’s learned that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to creating the perfect frames. “I have an unfortunately tiny skull,” says Levy, who favors his own round-shaped Beaumont style. “It’s really important for me that anybody could try on the entire collection and find at least one style that suited their face.” Secondly, that the devil’s in the details. For instance, each pair, which retails for $135, is inscribed with “See With Love,” to encourage his wearers to do just that. He has also partnered with LISC , a nonprofit organization supporting small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “As a small business owner, I really understand how hard it is to get a business off the ground, but I also understand that I have a platform,” says Levy who is donating a portion of his proceeds from his eyewear to LISC. “We’re ensuring that we will be able to support other small businesses and allow them to grow as well.”

The collection officially launches on Levy’s birthday, August 9. “It’s gonna be a very exciting day,” he says. “I’ll be hopefully responding to some people by email. If you get an email from our support line, it is most likely going to be me!”

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Eugene Levy Looks Back on ‘American Pie’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Working With Son Dan and Catherine O’Hara, and Whether He Finds Himself Funny

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  Eugene Levy doesn’t think he’s funny — and he’s not kidding. 

Talk to the Canadian film and television icon about his career and he’s pretty adamant that he isn’t funny. For him, it’s all about the character.

“It always comes down to my own kind of psychiatric approach to myself, which is that I’ve spent my career in comedy, and I don’t think I’m a funny person,” Levy tells Variety . “My laughs come through the characters I do, so character work has always been a big thing for me. If I’m playing a character, I can be funny.”

“I think his success is that he’s always found the heartbeat of whatever character he has chosen to play,” says his son, Daniel Levy , who co-created “Schitt’s Creek” with his dad. “A lot of people overlook the value of that — the warmth of a character, the empathy that you extract from them. All of his work is tied together by his ability to find that. I think that’s why he gets hired to do these parts that are not necessarily the largest role but offer warmth to a kind of comedic project that needs it.”

For his career of standout roles, major and minor, Levy senior will be honored on March 8 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The honor arrives as he embarks on a second voyage with his most out-of-character role yet — himself. As the host of Apple TV+’s unscripted series “The Reluctant Traveler,” the 77-year-old sheds the character-actor persona to face his deep-rooted aversion to packing a bag and exploring extravagant, culturally rich locales. It’s an ironic career pivot considering just how tightly he’s clung to the protective shell of a character.

In the new episodes, he traces his deeply personal roots in Scotland, herds sheep in Germany and even dines with Joan Collins in Saint-Tropez. The witty, globe-trotting hit is a far cry from his upbringing in Canada — and not just geographically.

“I can’t get the ‘I’m just a kid from Hamilton’ voice out of the back of my head,” he says. “Everything that happened to that kid has kind of been a big deal. Just getting my first job in Toronto was a big deal.”

That first job was joining a group of unknown twentysomethings, including Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner and Victor Garber for a 1972 stage production of “Godspell.” “It is always fun working with people you absolutely adore, and that’s what we were doing [in “Godspell”] and on ‘SCTV.’”

Most of the “Godspell” cast were also members of Toronto’s Second City theater troupe, along with future stars like John Candy and Harold Ramis. In 1976, the group took their show to the airwaves by launching the Canadian television staple “SCTV,” a sketch comedy series about a fictitious TV station that produces its own off-kilter programming.

“The great thing about ‘SCTV’ was the inmates were running the asylum and the product also happened to be really good,” Levy laughs. “We were the purveyors of our own future.”

Catherine O’Hara got her start at Second City. It’s there that she first met Levy, the man who would become the most frequent scene partner of her career.

“He welcomed me right from the beginning,” O’Hara says of the actor. “He was then and always has been a very thoughtful writer and actor. Very thoughtful in that he won’t say no to an idea right away. He considers the collaboration and everything on offer with someone. He’s just a good man to be around, and that’s a big part of working with someone. They can be really talented, but do you want to spend an hour with them? I’ve spent many hours with Eugene if that says anything.”

During “SCTV’s” run, Levy honed his skills as a writer, creating popular characters like comedian Bobby Bittman, news anchor Earl Camembert and “Money Talks” host Brian Johns. Writing is his comfort zone, where he can fine-tune the humor and the character to what he does best. But after the show ended its American run in 1984, he began a two-decade run of supporting or small parts in movies like “Splash,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Father of the Bride,” “Bringing Down the House,” “Serendipity” and “Josie and the Pussycats.” In every single one, he was unforgettable.

“I spent the bulk of my career getting paid to come in for a few scenes and my job was to make people laugh, and then I could get out,” he says. “I didn’t have anything to carry. I didn’t have any story, no exposition, none of that stuff.”

Alongside his co-writer and director Christopher Guest, Levy formed a new troupe of actors for a quartet of beloved improv mockumentaries starting with “Guffman,” followed by “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration.” The films are among his most acclaimed work and were the first time he forged a true partnership with O’Hara, playing married dog-show newbies in “Best in Show” and a folk musical duo in “A Mighty Wind.”

“Eugene is so good in those movies because he takes the comedy seriously,” O’Hara says. “We both do. That’s why we work so well together.”

Daniel’s favorite role of his father’s is “A Mighty Wind,” in which he plays the emotionally fragile Mitch Cohen, who is still reeling from the implosion of his musical partnership with former lover, Mickey (O’Hara).

“I think about all the things he could have done with that character, and it takes a lot of conviction and courage to make the choices he did and stick the landing,” Daniel says. “I know that he questioned it a lot and came home thinking he didn’t know what he was doing with it. But I remember being so proud of him watching that movie because that character was, at times, very funny, but also real and warm. That requires a lot of great instincts.”

The senior Levy won a Grammy for the film’s title song (alongside co-writers Guest and Michael McKean).

While lauded, his collaborations with Guest existed in a completely different corner of Hollywood than his other 1990s and early 2000s work, especially considering the vast majority of moviegoers knew him simply as “Jim’s dad.” The character from 1999’s hit teen comedy “American Pie” handed Levy something he hadn’t yet experienced — global fame.

“I know when we’re doing [“The Traveler”] all over the world, the one thing people recognize me for is ‘American Pie,’” Levy says. “Still to this day, it is crazy how that is the one. It was great fun, and I did a few of them.”

He did eight of them — four big-screen installments and four direct-to-DVD spinoffs. The only reason Jim’s dad could be the unlikely thread through the franchise was because of what Levy did with the role. While hilariously inelegant, Jim’s dad resonated as an endearing stand-in for the supportive parent most teens never knew they wanted, even under outrageous pie-related circumstances.

Levy is humble about how much of himself and his humor made that role successful, but no one recognized it better than his son. “Apparently the character of Jim’s dad was originally harder and a lot more crass,” Daniel remembers. “But my dad accepted the part with the understanding he would change that character. That work really warms up Jim’s dad and makes him more empathetic and sweeter. That character gave something special to this gross-out comedy and balanced the scales of that movie.”

The CBC series debuted in 2015 with the elder Levy playing Johnny Rose, a former movie rental company magnate and strait-laced ringmaster of his family’s big personalities. The series reunited him with O’Hara as Johnny’s eccentric actress wife, Moira, alongside Daniel as their sarcastic yet sensible son, David, and Annie Murphy as their aloof but lovable daughter, Alexis. Although he beams when he talks about the series, Levy is honest about how much he wrestled with the writing process at first.

“When I got on ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and I was in the room with the writers, that was a tough thing for me because I am so used to writing on my own,” he says. “I’m used to taking things where I want to take them, and when you are in a room with writers, which I had never done before, ideas are flying across the table.”

But it was tough with a little “t.” Johnny Rose may have been the straightest character and the most dramatic work of his career, but he adores the role. It’s O’Hara’s favorite.

“It’s because I lived with that character for six years,” she says. “He’s so real to me and Eugene was just so good. He doesn’t see the characters as himself, but of course he’s bringing all his great humor to Johnny Rose. And I loved that Eugene and I chose to make them a loving couple, even though it took a while for them to appreciate their kids.” 

After being licensed to Netflix and becoming a massive hit, “Schitt’s Creek’s” final season swept every major comedy category at the 2020 Primetime Emmys, including Levy’s win for lead actor — shockingly, his first acting Emmy. It remains the only series to ever accomplish the sweep.

In his 70s, Levy had his biggest hit yet. The series spawned merchandise, live cast tours and a level of success he’s still reckoning with today.

“I think ‘Schitt’s Creek’ was a different way of telling a story for me,” he says. “There was more of me in that character than anything I have ever done. And I am glad it happened when it did. If it had happened earlier in my career, would it have been better or given me more choices in terms of what to do next or maybe get more into dramatic work? I don’t know, maybe. But I am happy things are happening when they are happening.”

His son wants his dad to take another lesson from it.

“I hope this whole experience taught him that he does have the capacity to hold down any project as the star and not just be the great character actor that comes in, gets their laugh and leaves,” Daniel says. “He deserves his place at the center of the story, being more than just the comedy. He has always been the heart, the soul and the comedy.”

WHAT: Eugene Levy receives a star on the Walk of Fame. WHEN March 8, 11:30 a.m. WHERE 7080 Hollywood Blvd. WEB walkfoffame.com

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Catherine O'Hara Weighs In On 'Schitt's Creek' Reboot, Talks Working With Dan & Eugene Levy

Catherine O’Hara weighed in about the possibility of a Schitt’s Creek reunion during a recent interview, and fans will be happy to hear what she thinks.

The actress brought Moira Rose to life alongside her onscreen family played by Dan and Eugene Levy and Annie Murphy on the beloved series, which concluded back in 2020.

Nearly four years later, fans are still hoping for an update on the Rose family. It turns out that Catherine is just as excited by the idea.

Keep reading to find out more…

During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa , Catherine expressed interest in getting the cast back together for a Schitt’s Creek movie.

“I hope we do a movie,” she told host Kelly Ripa . “That would be nice.”

She continued, reflecting on her experience developing Moira with co-creators Dan and Eugene : “Let me just say too, you know, my character, a lot of it came from the script, you know, so on paper it was interesting. It’s just, it’s so lovely to work with people with whom you’re allowed to collaborate and Eugene and Daniel , you know, collaborated from the very beginning on what I would look like and they were open.”

“You know, when I told Eugene I wanted to have a, you know, wild vocabulary and possibly have an inconsistent way of speaking, he said, ‘Yeah, let’s see how that goes,’ and he didn’t say no. ‘What if I wear a different wig in every scene?’ ‘Yeah, Catherine . We’ll look into that. Yeah.’ He made it happen. He made it happen,” she recalled.

This isn’t the first time that a Schitt’s Creek movie has been floated as a possibility. Another costar previously joked that they were bribing Dan to write the story .

Back in August 2023, the show’s executive producer revealed what Dan and Eugene thought about rebooting the show .

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Marque O Yachts

La marque O Yachts est née de la passion d’un homme, Dan Levy, pour la mer et les beaux bateaux. Désireux d’offrir à ses clients la meilleure expérience en navigation comme au mouillage, O Yachts propose, avec une vision innovante, une gamme de catamarans à voile ou à moteur, rapides, spacieux et confortables. La réalisation semi-custom pour les coques, pont, superstructures et les aménagements, est positionnée haut de gamme et garantie une forte personnalisation. Le design et l’architecture sont confiés à de grands noms de l’industrie de la plaisance, au savoir-faire reconnu, tandis que la fabrication et les finitions, sur mesures, font appel aux technologies les plus abouties et à des conceptions avant-gardistes. La mise en œuvre est exécutée avec des matériaux de grande qualité et adaptés à l’objectif initialement fixé avec l’acquéreur allant de la croisière à la course. Dan Levy, agissant en coordinateur, s’assure qu’un O Yachts soit LE bateau de VOTRE projet pour toujours plus de plaisir en mer.